I know, I know the modern day Chicomms gave the world the Wuhan virus.
Go into a Chinese restaurant and see very few white people and lots of Asians chances are the food will be good. If the few whites in there have on a Fedex or UPS uniform on chances are food will be very good. Those guys tend to be ex-military stationed in Asia.
Don’t order Number 3. It tastes like Number 2.
Reminds me. I’ve never been to the Hall of Fame in Guangdong, Ohio.
I'll bet that's so. Ours is made from chicken, not stray dogs or rats.
I went to a “Chinese” restaurant in Greenwood, SC that was run by Mexicans. Not a Chinese man or woman to be found. Food sucked...
Went to another in Cantonment, FL where the person at the register was a kid who could not have been more than ten years old. He took my order, repeated it back in perfect English, called the order to the cooks in Chinese, ran my card, got my receipt, made sure the order was correct and sent me on my way. While I was there, he tuned up one of the cooks... had to be the owner’s kid because the cook literally bowed to the kid in apology.
If the menu includes frog legs, it is legit. We have over 1500 people from China/Taiwan in a town of 36,000. We have some legit Chinese places but I prefer the Americanized versions.
Same thing with Mexican Food.
Our ‘Mexican’ food here in Texas is nothing like what you get down there. Back in the 70’s we knew some people that had a small chain of Mexican restaurants in the US, and then opened on in Bogota, Colombia, S.A.
It was a big hit, since it was so different than what they ate down there.
I used to go to a dim sum place with some people from my church which included a person native to china. We would get to explore all kinds of interesting things. Once i took mexican girlfriend there and all they brought by was sugary glop coated bland stuff.
Another restaurant i used to visit with chinese coworkers had a 7 or so page menu. I went myself once and got a 1 page menu.
where are my reparations /s
After living in China for a few years, I no longer care for Americanized Chinese food. Unfortunately, truly authentic restaurants are few and far between in the Midwest.
“Fire ‘77” finds Yemana earnestly stirring a Japanese delicacy called shabu shabu, which stinks up the precinct the longer it simmers.
When Wojo indicates that it smells like garbage, Nick lists the ingredients- fish heads, cabbage leaves, cucumber rinds, and celery tops (Yemana: “come to think of it, that is garbage!”).
“That wasn’t chicken.” - My last Fortune Cookie.